Friday, December 10, 2010

Here's a nice simple one question: what one game that you have never played would you really like to play in the near future. Bonus points if it was published before 1990.

I continue to be busy with the final stages of a manuscript revision, so I'll be scarce. However, I'm nearly done and that means regular posting, as well as updates on Petty Gods, should be soon be returning.

@houstonderek - I found a copy of TMNT in a secondhand bookstore in Perth, Australia along with the supplement "Mutants Down Under". On my list of really want to play. Not sure if it's my _one_ tho' :-)

Creeks & Crawdads: I wanted to be a Fighter that was as smart as a Thinker (simply because it had mastered the number "3" - no other numbers, just "3"). [Counting up to 3 is Thinker territory.] However as I am probably one of the very few people on this continent with a copy of the rules...

Most of the stuff in my collection that I have yet to play (and want to) is post-2000. I've managed to play or run at least one session of most of the pre-1990 stuff.

Lace & Steel, an Australian RPG that mixed centaurs and harpies in with 17th century swashbuckling France. I have a copy somewhere, and probably was not mature enough to play back then, but I suspect that I might appreciate it now.

Definitely Pendragon. I've gotten as far as creating characters, and the first edition box is sitting on my shelf where I can see it as I type. I dusted off Metamorphosis Alpha this summer for a couple of sessions. Most of the surviving dozen or so games in my collection have actually been played at least once.

On an old-school front, I'd love to try out Alma Mater. It's an odd one, perhaps a little bit more so for me because it reflects a foreign country's historical youth culture... but it's still something pretty clearly established in media and something I think I could get to grips with. Perhaps I wouldn't want ot play it for long, but I'd find it a real change to eschew the fantasy and sci-fi and play something else.

A big one is probably Pendragon, which I'd also like to run. I just don't think there's anything else quite like it in RPG circles, that notion of the generations long campaign, and a recent kick of attempting to read Le Morte D'Arthur has got me in the mindset. It's not really one-off able, I'd need to get people to commit to a long-term game to "get it".

I'd also sort of liek to play some flavour of Vampire, just to say I have. I have no real love for the World of Darkness, especially the old, and the only game I played in was one I found pretty dire - the only time I've walked on a campaign mid-play, in fact. But I feel it's too major a game and I'm doing it a disservice not to play it just to say I have.

A) Can't think of a game I've never played that came out before 1990 that I would want to play. I've played A LOT of games. (Looking at the other responses I noted that I've played practically all of these games at least once).

B)I'm not really an OSR guy. I want to try more hippie/new age avant garde games.

Traveller 2300/2300AD loved the premise of a Hard SF game before it degenerated into a cyberpunk and war against the aliens. The new Mongoose edition promises to put exploration back front & centre - hence contribute back some of its hardness - and it will be redeemed. And, if I am lucky, I will be able to assemble a group.

Space 1889 I think. I was an avid collector and player in the 80's and played just about every game in my collection back then - even my FGU collection. But somehow my copy of 1889 just sat on a bookshelf and then in storage for years and I read it again recently.

D&D BECMI and/or B/X ; never played them back in the day, since AD&D was the locally popular version. EPT is another one - when I first went to high school in 1979, the school games club had a copy, which was widely read and admired, but never played...

Stormbringer, 1st Edition. I have a complete 1st Ed. boxed set, and every 1st Ed. Stormbringer supplement that Chaosium published (there were only a handful), but have never had an opportunity to play. It sits on the shelf. I still intend to play it one day.

To be completely and utterly honest, I want to play Call of Cthulthu, I have a copy of 5th Ed, somewhere around. Have no idea when that version came out. The problem with it though is that its reputation precedes it. Every time I get a few new people around, I start to bring it up and some old vet then proceeds to horrify them with stories and rumors of how the game plays. And then CoC goes back on the shelf, cause no one wants to play it with me.

I played most of the games mentioned so far at least once (not Creeks & Crawdads, though). But for whatever reason, I never tried Boot Hill, and now, as an adult, the Western genre, which was always a more-or-less open influence on early fantasy fiction, seems able to explore many of the same themes as fantasy (individual vs. society; barbarism vs. civilization; law vs. revenge, etc.) in a context that is closer to reality as we know it.

It looked like a game with GREAT potential that got tossed aside when WotC bought TSR and D&D3e rose to prominence (and eventually gobbled all the original ideas for the game/setting into its D20 Modern line...and did so poorly).

Ghostbusters, original or GBI. We almost got to play it ONCE. Then 3 people decided not to show up and did this last minute killing our chances of playing it. Im not sure why we never tried to reschedule. The cancelers were flaky people though, responsible for thwacking many a promising game session. :(

Battletech. I had an RA in college try to teach me game mechanics, but he was so into the minutiae that it totally killed my gamer-buzz. All I remember is a 30 minute speech on heat sinks and I lost interest. I just wanted to blow stuff up with my giant robot (and still do).

@houstonderek We played a fair bit of Palladium FRPG. I don't recall very much of the rules however... I do recall that my friend's copy of the rules had a sticky label pasted over the table of sexual deviations. Once we realised there was censorship afoot, that label was coming right off!

Being relegated to mostly collector status throughout the '90s and early '00s, I have TONS of games that I own but never got to play. The smallest number I could narrow it down to is 5, in no particular order:EPTSwordbearerHarnPendragonRQ

Honorable mention (sorry, couldn't even do just 5):Behind Enemy Lines (only played it once)Space MasterThieves' Guild

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